Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin. He went to both Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford before moving to London to pursue a career as a writer. He wrote a variety of different material, from poetry to fairy stories. He wrote just one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray and is most famous for his plays, The Importance of Being Earnest perhaps his best known work.
Despite being married, Wilde also had a homosexual relationship with the son of a lord. This was illegal at the time and consequently he was gaoled for two years. This destroyed his career and after his release he spent the rest of his life abroad. He died in 1900 at the age of 46.
Oscar Wilde could never be accused of not speaking his mind - he is as well known for his exploits in court as for his literary genius! See how much you know about his life and his works in this quiz.
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Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, which is now the home of the Oscar Wilde Centre
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He was a leading eye and ear surgeon
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The story is about a man who sells his soul so that a painting of him will age whilst he himself keeps hold of his youthful beauty
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She's governess to Cecily Cardew
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The play is a satire of 19th Century society and its moral values
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Queensberry is most famous for giving his name to the rules of boxing
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Tite Street has been home to several famous names other than Oscar Wilde, such as the artists James Whistler and John Singer Sargent
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Wilde's play Salomé was written originally in French and later translated into English
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The play was first performed at London's Haymarket Theatre and, like many of Wilde's plays, it satirises the British upper class
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The Importance of Being Earnest was Wilde's last play. He was sentenced to prison 3 months after it opened and his career came to an end
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